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What makes creative people tingle are interesting problems, the chance to impress their friends, and caffeine.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Caffeine Chance Creative Creative People Friends Impress Interesting Makes People Problems

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In tough times, some of us see protecting the climate as a luxury, but that's an outdated 20th-century worldview from a time when we thought industrialization was the end goal, waste was growth, and wealth meant a thick haze of air pollution.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Air Air Pollution Climate End Goal Growth Haze Industrialization Luxury Meant Outdated Pollution Protecting See Some Thick Thought Time Times Tough Tough Times Us Waste Wealth Worldview

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The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Big Big Problem Biggest Conflict Decline Disease Doing Environmental Forth Global Go Interconnected Planet Poverty Problem Problems Really Sustainability Things Way Which

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Copenhagen has done a remarkable job creating streets that are focused on bicycles and pedestrians.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Copenhagen Creating Done Focused Job Pedestrian Remarkable Streets

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If we're talking about transportation, the best thing a city can do is densify as quickly as it can. That needs to be said every time this issue comes up, because it's the only universal strategy that works.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: About Because Best City Every Every Time Issue Needs Only Quickly Said Strategy Talking Thing Time Transportation Universal Up Works

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Deep walkability describes a city that is built in such a way that you can move from one area to another on foot, on bicycle, on transit and have an experience that remains a pleasant one, that you feel you are welcome not just in the neighborhood but moving between neighborhoods.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Another Area Between Bicycle Built City Deep Experience Feel Foot Just Move Moving Neighborhood Neighborhoods One Area Pleasant Remains Such A Way Transit Way Welcome You

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We're not going to persuade people in the developing world to go without, but neither can we afford a planet on which everyone lives like an American. Billions more people living in suburbs and driving SUVs to shopping malls is a recipe for planetary suicide. We can't even afford to continue that way of life ourselves.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Afford American Billions Continue Developing Developing World Driving Even Everyone Go Going Life Like Lives Living Malls More More People Neither Ourselves People Persuade Planet Planetary Recipe Shopping Suburbs Suicide Way Which Without World

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We already have many of the technologies and tools that we need to build a sustainable future. What we don't have is a new way of thinking, and that's really the hardest part.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Build Future Hardest Hardest Part Many Need New New Way Part Really Sustainable Technologies Thinking Tools Way

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You don't change the world by hiding in the woods, wearing a hair shirt, or buying indulgences in the form of 'Save the Earth' bumper stickers. You do it by articulating a vision for the future and pursuing it with all the ingenuity humanity can muster.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Bumper Buying Change Change The World Earth Form Future Hair Hiding Humanity Ingenuity Muster Pursuing Save Shirt Vision Wearing Woods World You

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Cities generate most of the global economy, and most of its energy use, resource demands and climate emissions. How we build cities over the next decades will largely determine whether we can deliver a bright green future.

~Alex Steffen

Topics: Bright Build Cities Climate Decades Deliver Demands Determine Economy Emissions Energy Future Generate Global Global Economy Green How Largely Most Next Over Resource Use Whether Will

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: Unknown

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